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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://umaryland.worldcat.org/oclc/45136686 Title: The modern invention of information : discourse, history, and power Author: Ronald E Day Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2001. ISBN/ISSN: 0809323907 9780809323906 OCLC:45136686

  
  

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The modern invention of information : discourse, history, and power

Author:	Ronald E Day
Publisher:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2001.
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